This comic started out as one where Dahl gets stuck in the restroom for several hours after the ENDEX call, but I didn’t like where it was going. This’ll be the last exercise one for a while, though, so consider it the ENDEX strip all the same.
I did, however, use some of that strip to create one for the Member’s Section, and it’s in there now.
-Farva
Hmm…That begs the question of “how many people actually do that?!?”
@ Boomhauser…That “Depends”…
Sorry long day, did not want to do it to you, felt I owed it to you.
I don’t get it…unless it really means…?? o_O
I just wouldn’t be able to stand having soaked pants for so long…
Think back to what a certain female USN O-6 NASA Astronaut did for her trip from Texas to florida…
and, did the means justify the end? It Depends!
That is absolutely what it means…
And how many people just say to themselves: “screw it….I know it’s an exercise…there aren’t really chems out there. I’ll just sneak into the bathroom and take care of business!”?
I love the suction marks on the face! Nice!
Farva has great attention to detail!
HAHA, he wears diapers!
Made me think of that NASA Captain too…LOL!
shhhh.. we dont want CAP to get the wrong idea!
Come to think of it, CAPPIEs Cessnas don’t have relief tubes nor do they seem capable of generating those blue hailstones.
Basically, the third panel in this strip adds nothing to the joke. Either trust the readers to “get” the play on “Depends”, and omit the third panel, or actually give the third panel a punch-line. “No, you misunderstood” isn’t really funny, and pretty just much says to the reader: “Hey stupid, there’s a play on words here, savvy?” How about a final speech-bubble reading: “My ass, where would you wear them?”
I am heading for the bomb shelter now.
May Farva and his followers Mercy be thrust upon you. (STS)
Wow, you completely missed the point on the third panel, it’s not about you “getting” the word play in the second panel; it’s about the character not getting it. I understand, sometime stories, even three panel cartoons, can be hard for people to comprehend. Just be happy you don’t have to pee in a bottle, would you like some lemonade?
Noted.
You’re a mensch, Farva.
Team Spirit 1987, Yechon ROKAFB. I took ill one of the days of the 3-day NBC (CBR) drill. The alert and its MOPP 4 happen at random several times a day. They told me at sick bay that I had the flu and a high fever with chills that the suit may have amplified. I was sent SIQ back to the tent. Being that this was my first time in-country, I wasn’t sure how realistic the exercise would be. And knowing from prior experience that CS agent doesn’t like me, I slept the flu off in MOPP 4. Unwittingly, I forced myself into an Indian Sweat that left me feeling better that night.
I checked the old Crew Dogs Website and there is a memorial day comic up! Is Beetle bringing Crew Dogs back?
http://www.thecrewdogs.com/
That was awesome……
We can only hope he has served his sentence and can return. But he did torque off Global Strike Command and remember the old SAC motto “To err is human, to forgive is not SAC poilcy.”
Saw it also, enjoyed the graphic rendition of an old Johnny Cash favorite too.
I never actually read what happened to him. Did something he made a comic about rub someone the wrong way and cause his comic to get pulled?
Love the detail, you even have the gasmask lines on their faces.
I thought there was something wrong with my screen until I got a closer look…LOL! I know…I’m losing my mind…
I was one of the ones who said “F@#* it” its only an exercise. If some EET had an issue with it, (which never was an issue) I would have told them to take it up with my Dr.
So Coffman goes to the base doctor and requests for a urine catheter to be placed? Ouch, gutsy.
Yet another story of mine. February 08, middle of Oklahoma at a barely known old military installation. Twenty-one sorry souls setting up equipment in an open field, trying to scramble before nightfall to avoid darkness and sub-freezing temps. For three days we blessed the use of gas masks to keep our faces warm, cursed rubber gloves that did nothing to keep our hands warm, and had to walk in total darkness for a few hundred yards to a portajohn with no lights and barely enough room to move inside. Getting reprimanded for returning fire at OPFOR from the passenger seat of our UTV. Building a sniper nest out of empty equipment cases only to realize that MILES gear isnt accurate enough to snipe anything. All the while looking down the road at the small suburb of the 3rd Combat Comm and wondering if Las Vegas can compete with the amount of lighting they have.
Man I miss exercises with TDC……………
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to bring myself to try this one… On an unrelated note, good luck to all of you who are (like me) hoping for good news about TSgt. Promotions tomorrow.
Twas a senior senator on Senate Armed Services Committee asked in the 1990s, when ’twas an in vogue MTV question, “Boxers or briefs?” “Depends.” he replied…
Of course, if you’re around Patrick AFB, on the Space Coast, and if NASA hasn’t modified the exhibit, you can find the “diaper bag” on the LEM mock up.
I know special ops pilots who wear Depends. If you’re going to have to sit in the bird for 8 hours, awaiting a signal to go get someone, what else is there to do?
i wish i could hear the words ENDEX… but, we are just about to start, so it will be a few days away.
I love the mask marks on their faces…so true